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our focus is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. there was a self driving car and then a plan to use weather balloons. it looks like amazon might use robots and the former head of android is part of it. in china, the government has cleared the way for the largest cell carrier to offer four g services, and that could mean hundreds of millions of new customers. how do you put together the management team? we asked the guy who has done it. first, google is known for its far-reaching projects like google glass and the self driving car. now the latest moonshot involves robots. the company has required seven robotic companies in japan. ceo larry page writes, i am excited about andy rubin's next project. android started as a crazy idea -- it is still very early-- what might google be doing with these robots, and how might it compare with the delivery drone amazon is testing? first, what could google possibly be working on? >> i wouldn't say first. this is characteristic of how google operates. this has always been characteristic of how goo
our focus is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. there was a self driving car and then a plan to use weather balloons. it looks like amazon might use robots and the former head of android is part of it. in china, the government has cleared the way for the largest cell carrier to offer four g services, and that could mean hundreds of millions of new customers. how do you put together the management team? we asked the guy who has done it. first, google is known for its...
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the minister of technology, the minister of technology, which i love saying -- >> all of the chinese departments. >> they choose td-lte standard, which is the chinese standard. this will be the biggest in the world. >> why don't they just call it 4g? >> it's different. it's the way it works. it's the way it broadcasts a signal, the duration, how high it can go as well as the kind of chips. >> it's basically the same. >> it will have a lot of the same characteristics. for this market you had the other carriers choose. they have a much smaller percentage of the market. they originally chose homegrown technologies because it has been good for the units. it's good for the cell phone makers. apple didn't want to be involved. this was never licensed by the chinese government. making great the standard that licensed by the chinese government. >> apple could be a huge winner here. the question is how much could they win? >> it's unclear how much they could win and how many customers will migrate to that phone. there are other important players. a lot of other companies could do this. it is n
the minister of technology, the minister of technology, which i love saying -- >> all of the chinese departments. >> they choose td-lte standard, which is the chinese standard. this will be the biggest in the world. >> why don't they just call it 4g? >> it's different. it's the way it works. it's the way it broadcasts a signal, the duration, how high it can go as well as the kind of chips. >> it's basically the same. >> it will have a lot of the same...
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or technology to come. as ang at everything company, technology the backbone at ups a driving so much air, and as you heard, not in the cards anytime soon. we spoke more with scott davis -- we will speak more with scott davis later on here. >> thank you. carol massar at ups. tune into bloomberg all day long as we go inside of ups and find out more about how the it just package shipping company is an matching the world 20 years from now. time now for on d markets. >> we are seeing markets pull back a little bit today. they closed at a record yesterday. if you look at the major averages here of people considering defense tapering, potentially, when will it come as well as budget talks from washington. s&p go backg the about four points or zero point 25%. we will have more. ♪ ofthis is the early addition "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. headlines.op world leaders are remembering nelson mandela at a memorial service at a soccer stadium in south africa. president obama was among those who spoke at the servic
or technology to come. as ang at everything company, technology the backbone at ups a driving so much air, and as you heard, not in the cards anytime soon. we spoke more with scott davis -- we will speak more with scott davis later on here. >> thank you. carol massar at ups. tune into bloomberg all day long as we go inside of ups and find out more about how the it just package shipping company is an matching the world 20 years from now. time now for on d markets. >> we are seeing...
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mobile technology is enabling the line to blur. him him you can have a seamless experience that has technology him involved, but you can have choice around how you receive him in the item. we started with kate spade him and saturday in new york. we put a touchscreen on the storefront. if people walked by, they could shop. they can have it delivered to them with ebay now. that extended to the westfield mall here in the bay area. we have these gigantic touchscreens. consumers walking by can in gauge in a large touch green experience. they can see what they want and have it delivered to them. here is a great example. sony has a store in the mall. they have a touchscreen at another point in the mall. they can shop and then go over to the store to pick up and buy it or they can have it delivered to them later on at home. >> you have said this is not an experiment. how fast do you plan to scale this? >> we approach innovation. we're good at consumer innovation and creating new experiences. just as with ebay now, we have the ability to bu
mobile technology is enabling the line to blur. him him you can have a seamless experience that has technology him involved, but you can have choice around how you receive him in the item. we started with kate spade him and saturday in new york. we put a touchscreen on the storefront. if people walked by, they could shop. they can have it delivered to them with ebay now. that extended to the westfield mall here in the bay area. we have these gigantic touchscreens. consumers walking by can in...
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is the technology the same? >> in some ways. when you are looking for a face, you are giving it a lot of hints. if you are looking for a genetic product image, it is much harder. you do not know what you are looking for when you are first given an image. >> why hasn't google done this already? >> let's say there are a lot of people trying, but it is hard technology to solve. we are venture capitalists. we think they'd. they.think google was a small thing and they made it big. calledthis investment is --? >> super fish. -- >> do you think it will have more commerce, or more commerce related results? >> it is a start. if you click on something and buy something, people get paid. super fish has been profitable for a couple of years. lex already? >> yes, year-over-year. >> thank you very much. wild stuff. >> wild, indeed. we will have more on "bloomberg west" just after the break. ♪ >> welcome back. i'm emily chang. amazon ceo jeff bezos is also in the private space race. his company, blue origin, has ast testified -- testfired ne
is the technology the same? >> in some ways. when you are looking for a face, you are giving it a lot of hints. if you are looking for a genetic product image, it is much harder. you do not know what you are looking for when you are first given an image. >> why hasn't google done this already? >> let's say there are a lot of people trying, but it is hard technology to solve. we are venture capitalists. we think they'd. they.think google was a small thing and they made it big....
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stubhub is using technology and data to create a better experience for fans. i know you love your concerts. >> and a big sports fan as well. there is no more efficient market than stubhub. stubhub will opt in with a solution. ebay scooped it up in acquisition a few years back. check this out. -- it is time to change the way that tickets are sold. fant is about the experience. innovation is used across the business. takes a percentage off ticket sales on the rest goes to the seller. stubhub is after a lot more. the business has grown dramatically. back then it sold 10 tickets a minute. today in cells went to get every second. everysells one ticket second. it has grown with mobile ticketing. stubhub is a risk for even. the ebay gross margins have fallen. milking big data could be the key. .> this is a new science we are trying to understand that. arasu is the chief technology officer. >> where we are taking it to the next level is what that consumers might be intending to do. >> for years i bought tickets from a site called mr. ticket. market isb sets the like a
stubhub is using technology and data to create a better experience for fans. i know you love your concerts. >> and a big sports fan as well. there is no more efficient market than stubhub. stubhub will opt in with a solution. ebay scooped it up in acquisition a few years back. check this out. -- it is time to change the way that tickets are sold. fant is about the experience. innovation is used across the business. takes a percentage off ticket sales on the rest goes to the seller....
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is our technology playground. it gives us the opportunity to showcase what we have in the .arket area that push ebaye trying to to brick-and-mortar retail. >> if you look at what we are able to do for online shoppers, none of that exists in the off- line world. >> for paypal, that means replacing cash registers to customersow to make comfortable with swapping their wallets with their phones. they roll out high-tech touchscreen walls like this one in separate cisco. we turned an average storefront into an interactive shop double store. >> you walk up and touch the grass -- glass. then you pay on your mobile device. papal -- paypal brought in revenue of $1.6 billion. 42% of ebay's hall for the quarter. >> we take a small transaction fee. >> mobile payment is a crowded field with startups like square. million active0 customers that use the paypal wallet to shop area and that is a meaningful advantage. we have a relationship with that consumer that goes beyond the numbers. for a place to there is technically no shoppi
is our technology playground. it gives us the opportunity to showcase what we have in the .arket area that push ebaye trying to to brick-and-mortar retail. >> if you look at what we are able to do for online shoppers, none of that exists in the off- line world. >> for paypal, that means replacing cash registers to customersow to make comfortable with swapping their wallets with their phones. they roll out high-tech touchscreen walls like this one in separate cisco. we turned an...
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pier three in san francisco, welcome to the late edition of "bloomberg west," where we look at the technology and media companies shaping our world. i'm emily chang. let's get to the rundown. nelson mandela died at the age of 95 and tributes are pouring in around the globe. >> we've lost one of the most influential and courageous and good human beings. he belongs to the ages. >> mandela served 27 years in prison after being convicted of treason with the white minority government. three years later, he won the nobel peace prize. he became the first elected black president. once again, mandela has died at 95. we'll have more later in the show. meantime, our top tech story, twitter has added the first woman to their board effective immediately. she was ceo of pearson until last year. twitter faced controversy for not having a woman board member. she tweeted, "there could not be a more exciting time to join." john is in l.a. what is the latest? >> this was a priority to have a woman join the board. there are a number of things that made her the right candidate. she is smart and a forward thinking
pier three in san francisco, welcome to the late edition of "bloomberg west," where we look at the technology and media companies shaping our world. i'm emily chang. let's get to the rundown. nelson mandela died at the age of 95 and tributes are pouring in around the globe. >> we've lost one of the most influential and courageous and good human beings. he belongs to the ages. >> mandela served 27 years in prison after being convicted of treason with the white minority...
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technology is changing how consumers are able to shop. so, for instance, it is no longer just around black friday. it is now what we call the cyber five. it started on thanksgiving day. where people could start shopping sitting on their couch, getting ready to eat turkey. they can start shopping on their smartphone or on their tablet or on their laptop. that continues throughout the holiday weekend. for that five-day period, we saw company-wide between ebay, paypal, stub hub and all of our properties, ebay enterprise, we saw a 96% increase in mobile commerce volume. >> that's incredible. i'm pretty happy because i got 50% of my shopping done. are you done? >> i am not quite done. i'm getting there. >> you have been busy preparing for us. now going into the holiday period, you guys were a little nervous. you said you had angst about the commerce market decelerating growth. how do you feel now? do you feel a bit more optimistic? >> we're cautiously optimistic. i can't comment anything during the quarter. >> right. >> but at that time, also
technology is changing how consumers are able to shop. so, for instance, it is no longer just around black friday. it is now what we call the cyber five. it started on thanksgiving day. where people could start shopping sitting on their couch, getting ready to eat turkey. they can start shopping on their smartphone or on their tablet or on their laptop. that continues throughout the holiday weekend. for that five-day period, we saw company-wide between ebay, paypal, stub hub and all of our...